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Watercolor of a family of Homo heidelbergensis by the water, in the background elephants.

300,000-Year-Old Snapshot
05/12/2023 · Senckenberg Society for Nature Research

Three fossil footprints of Homo heidelbergensis were discovered among prehistoric elephant tracks at the Schöningen site in Lower Saxony.

Electronic noses detect crop diseases
05/11/2023 · Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics

If plant diseases are detected before the first visual symptoms appear, plant protection products can be significantly reduced. In the future, so-called electronic noses are to help in this process.

Sturdy plants
05/11/2023 · Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research

Silicon fertilization increases wheat yields and water availability, a new study shows.

Scientist in front of a computer screen showing brain regions marked in different colors.

How genes, brain characteristics and intelligence are connected
05/10/2023 · Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors

Genes influence different structures and the function of the brain. These in turn explain differences in behaviour. Analysing all three aspects at once is a challenge – but has now been achieved.

Stone Age molecules
05/08/2023 · Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute

Scientists rebuild microbial natural products up to 100,000 years old using dental calculus of humans and Neanderthals.

Fox on a main road, a truck in the background

Nature in the city ticks differently
05/08/2023 · Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

Urban ecology is a growing research field. A new map of urban gives an overview.

[Translate to english:] Schwarzfußseriema im bodennahen Flug

Sophisticated gene memory
05/05/2023 · Senckenberg Society for Nature Research

Frankfurt researchers develop new method to genetically compare hundreds of animal species.

Immediate Arrests Help Reduce Domestic Violence
05/02/2023 · ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Immediate arrest of the perpetrator by police in cases of domestic violence reduces the likelihood of new assaults by about 50 percent.

IHP chips fly to Jupiter
04/14/2023 · Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP)

With the launch of JUICE Leibniz technology has also gone on the more than one billion kilometre journey.

Actors of Influence
04/14/2023 · Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

In Kyrgyzstan, Islamic activism of women has become increasingly important. A new analysis shows the influence of women actors on society and how their activities can be contextualised.

Johan Rockström on TIME's List
04/13/2023 · Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

TIME named PIK Director Johan Rockström to its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

A small advantage for women
04/12/2023 · WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Women are as likely as men to be selected for professorships when they apply. There is even a small advantage for women among less qualified applicants.

Diamond Fever
04/11/2023 · Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik

Researchers made an important step towards the quantum internet: They integrated individual qubits into optimized diamond nanostructures.

You or me
03/20/2023 · German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research

Who gets the more reward? Humans and monkeys both coordinate conflicting interest to maximize their profits.

[Translate to english:] Weiblicher Fisch der transparenten klara-Linie

A transparent fish for research
03/20/2023 · Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute

Researchers have now succeeded in generating a transparent killifish which, with a maximum lifespan of only one year, is ideal for studies of age-related processes.

Creation of shallow water zones at a lake

Adding habitat beats adding fish
03/06/2023 · Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

A large-scale study shows: The ecological improvement of freshwater ecosystems benefits fish and humans.

The evolution of the sense of fairness
03/02/2023 · German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research

A sense of fairness has long been considered purely human – but animals also react with frustration when they are treated unequally by a person.

Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope in Arizona

On the trail of exoplanets
03/01/2023 · Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

Astronomers present precise values of more than 1000 bright stars. The data will be essential to interpret the stellar light and find connections between the stars’ properties and their possibly still unknown planets.

Finding a ‘happy medium'
02/27/2023 · Senckenberg Society for Nature Research - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research

An international research team investigated how land in rural areas in Germany could be best used so that all user groups get as many benefits as possible, and equitably.

Woman and top positions
02/23/2023 · ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Women face clearly identifiable and direct obstacles which prevent equal representation. A study shows two reasons.